Ministries
Six ministries. One Gospel.
Every trip runs on the same six tracks, so the churches of Clarendon know what to expect and the work keeps compounding year after year.
Every trip runs on the same six tracks, so the churches of Clarendon know what to expect and the work keeps compounding year after year.
Sound, expository teaching for pastors, leaders and congregations — so the Word takes root and the local church stands on its own feet.
Everything we do begins and ends with the Gospel. When our teams land in Clarendon, the first priority is not a project — it is the pulpit. We preach Christ in Sunday services, weeknight meetings and teen gatherings at Temple Baptist Church, Gravel Ground and the churches around them, opening the Scriptures plainly and calling men and women to repentance and faith.
But a visiting preacher is a short-term blessing. A trained pastor is a lifetime one. That's why we invest heavily in leadership training: sitting with Jamaican pastors and deacons, working through books of the Bible verse by verse, sharpening the skills of interpretation and application, and encouraging the men who shepherd these churches all year long when we are back in New Hampshire.
Free health-screening clinics run by nurses and volunteers — meeting real physical needs and opening doors for the Gospel.
In rural Clarendon a doctor's visit can mean a long trip and a bill many families cannot pay. So we bring the clinic to the church. Our medical volunteers set up under tents and in fellowship halls and offer free blood-pressure and blood-sugar screenings, basic assessments, health counsel and referrals — one morning at each partner church during a trip.
Every person who sits down at a screening table is met by someone who cares about them body and soul. Clinics fill the churches with neighbors who have never come to a service, and every patient hears the Gospel and leaves with an invitation to return.
Block by block, roof by roof — building and repairing the church buildings where Jamaican congregations gather.
A congregation can meet under a tree, but a building lets a church serve its community seven days a week: Sunday worship, weekday Bible clubs, clinics, youth nights and a shelter when the storms come. Our construction teams have laid block, poured concrete, hung doors, painted walls and put roofs on church buildings across Clarendon Parish — always working shoulder to shoulder with the local congregation.
Right now our biggest project is a new roof for Temple Baptist Church, the church that hosts our Vacation Bible School and clinics. After Hurricane Melissa, roofing is also the most urgent need for churches in the hardest-hit western parishes.
Chapel services, classroom visits and Bible teaching in Jamaican schools — reaching hundreds of students at once.
Jamaica's schools still open their doors to Christian teaching, and we walk through every one that opens to us. Our teams have led morning devotions and chapel assemblies for entire student bodies, taught Bible lessons in classrooms, sung with the students and answered their questions about Jesus.
It is one of the most efficient Gospel opportunities on the island — hundreds of children in uniform, sitting still, listening to the Word of God. Many of them then show up at the church for Vacation Bible School the same week.
Vacation Bible School, women's fellowship and one-on-one care for the mothers and children at the heart of every community.
Every afternoon of a mission trip, the church at Temple Baptist fills with children for Vacation Bible School — Bible stories, Scripture memory, songs, crafts, games and a snack. For many of these children it is the first time anyone has told them, in words they can understand, that God loves them and sent His Son for them.
Alongside VBS, the women on our teams spend time with the women of the churches: encouraging young mothers, praying with grandmothers who are raising grandchildren, and building the kind of friendships that last from one trip to the next.
Bringing songs, Scripture and a hand to hold to the elderly — the people the world forgets and God does not.
On every trip we set aside a morning to visit a nursing home. We sing the old hymns, read the Psalms, pray at bedsides and simply sit with men and women who rarely get a visitor. It is quiet work that will never make a highlight reel — and it is exactly the kind of work Jesus commends.
Our teens often say it is the part of the trip that changes them most.
Your prayers and your gifts carry the Gospel to families who have never heard it clearly — and put roofs over churches that preach it every week.